I have been asked to OMIT/Hide the index data that is sent over in a line data report. The first thirty characters of each line contains index data, and our customer wants us to exclude it from the stored report. My problem: I can't create AFP output as the customer desires the report to remain as line data as they want to be able to download the report into a text file, so using a pagedef/format to exclude the index fields isn't really an option as the report would then be converted to PDF. A sample of how the file comes over:
1201407019545829201CP 1CP1CP10IPPOLITO\RONALD\R\ 2014010103
201407019545829201CP 1CP1CP40IPPOLITO\CHRISTINE B \ 2014010103
201407019545829201CP 1CP1CP10HARLAN\CHARLES\D\ 2014010131
201407019545829201CP 1CP1CP40HARLAN\CATHRYN O\ 2014010131
201407019545829201CP 1CP1CP20VAZQUEZ-LUGO\DIANA\L\ 20140501AS
201407019545829201CP 1CP1CP20VAZQUEZ-LUGO\DIANA\L\ 20140501DH
Anyone done some fancy hiding of index fields?
Thanks
Harold Thomas (HT)
This isn't really something CMOD does. OnDemand strives to ensure document fidelity -- what goes in is what comes out.
You'll likely have to build some sort of input exit that works in conjunction with your indexing, or build your own indexer that reads the file, excludes the index data, and produces a generic index file for the load.
-JD.